Crossing Over : Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 3
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Abstract
Remembrance of Séamus Creagh (1946-2009) F or many people, their first introduction to Séamus Creagh and his music was the wonderful recording that he made with Jackie Daly in 1977, a record that has gone on to become a classic of the genre.Featuring the Sliabh Luachra repertoire and style of playing, it was generally assumed that both musicians came from that particular region in the southwest of Ireland.While this was true in Jackie's case, being a native of Kanturk, County Cork, this was not the case for Séamus.He was born in Killucan, County Westmeath in 1946, where he first started to play music.In 1967, he made a 'weekend' trip to Baltimore in West Cork, and 'never went home'!From then on, Cork became his home, although he did spend some time in London, as well as five years in Newfoundland.On his arrival in Cork, he embraced the indigenous traditions of the instrumental music of Sliabh Luachra, as well as the singing of the Cúil Aodha and Baile Mhúirne areas.His musical partnership with Jackie Daly brought him to the attention of a wider audience in the traditional music world.They became very well known through their stellar performances, both in concerts and sessions, and acquired the status whereby they were generally referred to simply by their first names, 'Séamus and Jackie'.Although I had known Séamus during his early years in Cork, it was when he returned home from Newfoundland in 1993 that we began to meet and play more frequently together.We both were great admirers of the Sliabh Luachra unaccompanied fiddle tradition, with the twin-fiddle playing of Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford being a particular source of inspiration for us.We played many sessions together, and also performed at concerts and festivals.Among the highlights was our appearance at the Masters of Tradition Festival in Bantry, County Cork, in August 2005.Our performance on that occasion of three slides, 'The Toormore', 'The Gneeveguilla', and 'The Gleanntán Frolics', was subsequently included on the double-CD issued by RTÉ Lyric FM featuring recordings from the festival.In 2006, we played at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo) in Aberdeen, an event which gave us the opportunity to meet and play with many other fiddle-players from a variety of traditions.A particularly poignant memory for me is our concert appearance in the Lemon Tree at lunchtime on the Sunday, the last day of the festival.Towards the end of our set, we invited Jerry Holland to play some tunes with us on stage.Sadly, both Séamus and Jerry are now gone from us.Little did I realise that this would be the last time that the three of us would play together.I often think about that occasion.Séamus was delighted when we were invited to play at NAFCo 2008 in St. John's.For him, not only would we partake in a great event, but it also offered the opportunity to return to Newfoundland, the place where he had lived for five years, and where he had met and married Marie-Annick Desplanques.I have many vivid recollections of our concert appearances, workshops, and many sessions in St. John's two years ago.A special memory is the day we went to Carbonear to play at the Dedication......
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".